Poker Tournament News

The European Poker Tour (EPT) made its annual UK stop, hosted at London’s Victoria Casino. 730 players started out in the £5,250 main event which created a total prize pool of £3,540,500. The first place prize everyone was trying to win was set at £850,000.
After four days play the tournament had reached the final table […]

The World Series of Poker Europe main event was held Empire Casino in London where 334 players started out in the £10,000 tournament. The event was scheduled to be played over four days to find the 2009 WSOPE champion. The field was packed full of poker pro’s from around the world which made this a […]

The Poker Stars sponsored Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) made the usual visit to Macau where 429 players started out in the main event. The first place prize everyone was trying to win reached $541,089.
After four days play the tournament had reached the final table stage with Daoxing Chen leading in the chip rankings on […]

The opening stop of this season’s European Poker Tour (EPT) was in Kiev, Ukraine for the very first time. This event was originally scheduled to be played in Moscow but due to recent change in Russian laws regarding poker the venue had to be changed.
296 players started out all searching to be crowned the first […]

The APT made its regular stop in Macau and 326 players started out in the main event. They were made up of a strong local turn out and some well known poker pro’s all fighting for the $391,556 first place prize.
After two days play the final table of nine was decided with some well known […]

The sixth leg of the 2009 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) was held at the Grosvenor Casino in Luton. 304 players started out in the £1,000 buy in main event which was the largest turn out in this year’s GUKPT. The first prize place on offer to the winner reached £88,850.
The tournament was filled with […]

Live Poker Tournaments USA August 09
August is a quiet month for the live poker scene in the USA with just three major festivals taking place. The WPS/CPT HardRock Mega Stack Poker Showdown will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This festival will run from the 7th right through to […]